He worked as a war photographer between 1961 and 1964 during the Vietnam war. In 1967, he decided to work as a freelance photographer and became City Walls Inc. official photographer. Later, he attended Cooper Union in New York where he studied sculpture and became Bachelor of Arts in 1974. After the
I am Canadian; originally from the west coast, but now reside in Ontario. I obtained my postgraduate degree in music composition from the UK. Although my portfolio consisted of my (written) thesis and acoustic compositions, I have recently begun to develop an interest in making field recordings. M
Richard Galpin’s complex art works are derived from the artist's own photographs of chaotic cityscapes. Using only a scalpel Galpin intricately scores and peels away the emulsion from the surface of the photograph to produce a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collagi